What are your top three everyday pain points as a developer?

This is the third post of the Mayfield + DEV Discussion series. Please feel free to go back and answer previous questions as well.

Be as detailed as you like when answering this question.

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[Bobo Brussels]

1. Flakey tests
2. Dependencies
3. Meetings

[Bas Steins]

1. Missing Documentation
2. Meetings that should have been an emai
3. misused JIRA

Plus, depending on the client:

1. restricted environments (proxies, VPNs, ...) that just standing in the way rather than provide extra security

[Ben Halpern The DEV Team]

I'm curious about specifics regarding misued JIRA.

[Bas Steins]

Well, I've seen any sorts of this in the wild:

• Tickets are not really tickets, but a trash can for ideas
• Overcomplicated workflow configuration
• Tickets referencing documents elsewhere ("I've posted that in slack" - "sure you did, but when and where?")
• misconfigured integrations with deployment pipelines
• ...

[Kei Koyama]

I'm curious about the restricted environments. What specific issues have you run into? Are they all client-side?

[Supportic]

Cache
pushing commits just to revert them later
facing merges instead of rebases

[MiguelMJ]

1. Undocumented code
2. Unclear priorities
3. Dealing with non technical problems like burocracy or users that don't read the manual

[Uriel Bitton]

Receiving unclean or inefficient code from developers. #1 most annoying thing to deal with.

[Christian]

1. Daily standups
2. Jira, even if well used
3. Clients who do not understand the real priorities, this can really kill projects

[Lucas Perez]

Back, head and wrist.

[Jonathan Apodaca]

1. Not prioritizing developer experience
2. Premature optimization
3. Code that is not strongly typed

[Arika O]

Back pain x 3 😂

[DevFranPR]

1. Working on projects with deprecated software/technologies.
2. Not having enough things automated.
3. Being forced to use Windows as work OS.